1. ASSD Secretariat Report
Risenga Maluleke

2. Progress recorded on RPHC and CRVS phases 11th ASSD Resolutions
Presentation Outline
ASSD programme
Progress recorded on RPHC and CRVS phases
11th ASSD Resolutions
Challenges
Conclusion and Way forward
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3. Sun Tzu
Know Your Enemy
Know The Terrain

4. The Enemy
Lack of integration on the continent: socio-economic, political and cultural matters
Lack of harmonization of systems, including systems of national statistics
Self-liquidating competition that diminishes our collective strength
A coordinating mechanism that falters, leading to decay in systems

5. The Mandate Yaondé, Cameroon, November 2005: The center could not hold
Cape Town, January 2006, South Africa: Birth of the ASSD
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, May 2006: In-conflict and post-conflict countries
Durban, South Africa: 57th Session of the ISI
Enter Policy: Conferences of Ministers of Civil Registration

6. ASSD Programme 2016 2012- 2015 2006- 2012 Mobilisation of
11 ASSDs held to date:-
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Accelerated improvement of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics
2016
Economic Statistics
&
2020 Round of Population and
Housing
Censuses
Mobilisation of
2010 Round of Population and Housing
Censuses
STRATEGIC SHIFTS

7. PROGRESS RECORDED
RPHCs
CRVS
2016
Economic
Statistics
: 2010 Round Population and Housing Censuses
50 out of 54 African countries undertook their censuses
CRVS Round:
Implementation of the Africa Programme on the Accelerated Improvement of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics(APAI- CRVS) programme since its inception in 2010
2015 onwards- Focus on Economic Statistics
Parallel to that accelerating programmes on 2020 RPHC and APAI- CRVS

8. New Dimensions
Enhanced for data for urgent and instant decision-making
Advanced users raising critical questions
Governance, gender, culture, sustainability
Enter Policy: Conferences of Ministers of Civil Registration
Technology: collection and dissemination of data
Global Partnerships: UN World Data Forum

9. Africa at UNSC
Africa’s Role in the United Nations Statistical Commission… Navigating Through the Challenging Issues:-
Climate change and official statistics
Development indicators
International Comparisons Program

10. ASSD Challenges Austerity measures present funding challenges
The Secretariat should serve only to coordinate, countries continue to do their work
New multilateral bodies and structures should not make us loose the focus, the enemy is still there

11. Conclusion and Way forward
The ASSD continues to advocate for ownership of our destiny by African countries
Focus on 2020 RPHCs and use of technology to improve censuses
Implementation of the Africa Programme on Accelerated Improvement of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (APAI-CRVS)
Coordinated tapping into international best practice to improve statistical production
Economics Statistics our baby now
Africa: Agenda within the context of the Post-2015 Development Agenda w.r.t. SGDs

12. Thank you
municipalities